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I set a classic mouse trap for the first time yesterday. I looked up how to do it properly, as I had found a dead mouse under Mom's stove last year, trapped at the shoulder. In the comments at Amazon, I got the tip to bend back the release mechanism a bit to let the trap spring with less pressure. This way the mouse doesn't dine and dash.
Also recommended was the trap be placed perpendicular to the wall, so that as the mouse scurries along the wall it increases the chances of a clean kill.
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Friday, May 29, 2020
If you build a better mouse trap the world will beat a path to your door
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WE have a rat problem in Irvine. Outdoor rats. We didn't have these down in Oceanside. My theory is that where we lived in O'side also lived a lot of avian predators and the landscape was more "open" meaning less trees. Another obvious theory is that closer one gets to Hollywood, the more rats you find in general. The Hollywood Hills are literally teeming with rats. I know this from residents there. Anyways, back to my rat-trapping.
I have one of those bigger mouse trap versions of the spring trap and successfully caught one a few months ago. A few nights ago, we heard rustling inside my covered gas grill. The next morning, I looked inside by where the actual gas cylinder is, there were turds and scraps of leaves and what looked like nesting material. I went to the store, bought some of those new fangled glue traps which they say are more humane -- even though we're talking about rats -- and put two inside the grill by the nest. About 10PM that night we heard terrible sounds of a violent struggle. It took me a second to realize that the creature had probable stopped into one of the glue traps and was trying to get itself back out of the grill through the hole in which it had come in. The sounds continued and so we retired. The next morning, there was no sign of both traps inside the grill and no rat. It had obviously succeeded in getting itself out of the grill with the both traps stuck to it, and then managed to scamper off somewhere. Envision a small animal wearing snowshoes trying to get someplace. I found one of the traps several feet away in some dense plants, but no rat or sign of the other trap.
I had a motion camera shoot the death of our rat about 10 years ago. First, I videotaped the rat jumping over the trap. I brought in an expert rat killer. He was tickled to death I had surveillance. He watched the rat on the tape and said, "Well..we got a jumper!" He then placed 3 traps about 4-6 inches apart, perpindicular to the wall. That night the camera caught the motherfucker getting his neck and spine cracked by 2 traps. Knowledge is power.
I looked up how to do it properly
Shows you are the kind-hearted lady I always knew you to be.
So, I had a pet rat once. A very sweet creature. He caused me to muse how a tamed rat is very different from a wild rat.
Great stories, guys. I saw or read something once about how really intelligent they are. One rat will test food for poison to see if it's okay for the others. He's the Fredo rat. And a big rat can get through a hole the size of a fifty-cent piece? A quarter?
Thank you, Edward.
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